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The document outlines an assignment focused on Inter-Process Communication (IPC) using POSIX shared memory. It details the steps for creating and managing shared memory objects using system calls such as shm_open, ftruncate, mmap, and shm_unlink. The assignment includes tasks to read relevant man pages and write programs for writing to shared memory and implementing a producer-consumer model.

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Assignment 03

The document outlines an assignment focused on Inter-Process Communication (IPC) using POSIX shared memory. It details the steps for creating and managing shared memory objects using system calls such as shm_open, ftruncate, mmap, and shm_unlink. The assignment includes tasks to read relevant man pages and write programs for writing to shared memory and implementing a producer-consumer model.

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Assignment 3

Operating System Lab


IPC Using Shared Memory:

POSIX shared memory is organized using memory-mapped files, which associate the region of shared
memory with a file.

A process must first create a shared-memory object using the shm_open() system call.

Once the object is established, the ftruncate() function is used to configure the size of the object in bytes.

Finally, the mmap() function establishes a memory-mapped file containing the shared-memory object. It
also returns a pointer to the memory-mapped file that is used for accessing the shared-memory object.

A process uses shm_unlink() function to remove the shared-memory segment after it has accessed the
segment.

Assignment:

1. Read the man pages of shm_open, ftruncate, mmap and shm_unlink.

2. Write a program which creates a shared memory and writes “Department of IT” in that shared memory.

3. Write a program where two processes (a producer and a consumer) share a shared memory. The
producer process writes the first ten positive integers in the shared memory. The consumer process reads
those integers and prints their sum.

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